CLASS OF 1910

To the Roll of Honor should be added the name of Kennedy Conklin, who was a member of this class during its junior year.

After service on the Mexican border with the Second Infantry, National Guard of New York, Conklin was transferred to Company L, Seventh Infantry, N.G.N.Y., as a private. The regiment was federalized in August, 1917 and went to Spartanburg, S.C., for training as the 107th Infantry, U.S.A., 27th Division. Conklin was first a bugler, was made a corporal in November, 1917, and a sergeant in April, 1918. The regiment sailed for France May 10, 1918, and was first in action July 19. Brigaded with the British in Flanders, the regiment saw active service from that time on. He attended the gas school, and was appointed to Officers Training School,-to report October 3, 1918. September 29, 1918, he went into the Battle of the Hindenburg Line in command of the Fourth Platoon, was seriously wounded, and after lying helpless for two nights and a day in No Man's Land, was evacuated to British General Hospital No. 8 at Rouen, where he died from his wounds October 12, 1918. He was buried October 14 in Bois Guillaume Cemetery, Rouen.

Conklin was born in New York city, June 25, 1888, the son of Luther S. and Jessie May (Kennedy) Conklin. He prepared for college at the Holbrook School, Ossining, N. Y., and took his first two years at Union College, where he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. After taking his junior year at Dartmouth, where he specialized in chemistry, he entered the automobile accessories and motorcycle business in New York city, and continued there until he began his military career.